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adapt
English
Etymology
From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare (“to fit to”), from ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??dæpt/
- Rhymes: -æpt
Verb
adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
- Synonym: proportion
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
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Translations
Adjective
adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
- Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
- c. 1709, Jonathan Swift, Merlin's Prophecy
- This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.
- c. 1709, Jonathan Swift, Merlin's Prophecy
Translations
References
- adapt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- APDTA
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??dap(t)/
Verb
adapt (third-person singular present adapts, present participle adaptin, past adaptit, past participle adaptit)
- to adapt
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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proportionally
English
Etymology
proportional +? -ly
Adverb
proportionally (comparative more proportionally, superlative most proportionally)
- In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively.
Translations
References
- proportionally in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- proportionally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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